Anti-Doping Code

Starting from 2004, Anti-Doping Code aims to harmonise regulations on anti-doping in all sports and countries. It is published as an annual list of prohibited substances and methods athletes are not allowed to take or use.

In November 2007, more than 600 sports organizations gathered at the Third World Conference on Doping in Sport and unanimously adopted a revised Code.

In 2013, WADA approved further amendments to the Code, doubling the sanction for a first offence for intentional doping use, but allowing for more lenient sanctions for inadvertent rule violations or for athletes co-operating with anti-doping agencies. The updated code came into effect on January 1, 2015